(3) Key people of the Churchills Conservative government 1951-55

Richard Austen Butler- Chancellor of the exchequer
1. Married an heiress and thus had the brains, connections and money.
2. Became an MP in his twenties and rapiedly promoted to office
3. Classic "insider", more concerned with the practical problems of government than abstract principles or party poltical warfare, which seemed to this as crude and distructive
4. Butler represented all that was best in the traditions of the english ruling class
  1. Intelligence
  2. Detachment
  3. Serve
Harold Macmillan - Housing Minister
1. A tragic and complex figure, macmillan was older than either Butler or Eden
2. He married Lady Dorothy Cavendish
3. Macmillan became an Conservative MP for Stockton in 1924 and developed a real affection for it and a real concern for the plight of the unemployed
4. He became a genuine Tory radical and, develpoed a real insight into the "new economic".
Sir Antony Eden - Foreign Secretary
1. Edan was from an old gentry family
2. He was appointed Foreign Secretary at 38 and resigned in protest to chamberlin's polices. Churchill appointed him Foreign Sectary again in 1940.
3. He was acknowledged as the leader in waiting

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